Page 290 of the Mueller Report: The Appointment of the Special Counsel and the President 's Reaction On May 17, 2017, Acting Attorney General Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller, ITTas Special Counsel and authorized him to conduct the Russia investigation and matters that arose from the investigation .501 The President learned of the Special Counsel's appointment from Sessions, who was with the President, Hunt, and McGahn conducting interviews for a new FBI Director. 502 Sessions stepped out of the Oval Office to take a call from Rosenstein, who told him about the Special Counsel appointment, and Sessions then returned to inform the President of the news. 503 According to notes written by Hunt , when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I' m f-----." 504 The President became angry and lambasted the Attorney General for his decision to recuse from the investigation , stating, "How could you let this happen, Jeff?" 505 The President said the position of Attorney General was his most important appointment and that Sessions had " let [him] down ," contrasting him to Eric Holder and Robert Kennedy. 506 Sessions recalled that the President said to him , "you were supposed to protect me," or words to that effect. 507 The President returned to the consequences of the appointment and said, "Everyone tells me if you get one of these indep endent counsels it ruins your presidency. It takes years and years and I won 't be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

Mueller Report: "Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgement. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgement. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. "

"While the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges," the report states.

"Among other things, the evidence was not sufficient to charge any Campaign official as an unregistered agent of the Russian government or other Russian principal."

This is my JPW prediction-

The right will hang their hat on the report stopping short of calling Trump, his campaign and his transition team's conduct criminal. All other critical thought and consideration will be tossed out the window because their only standard will be "is it criminal".

Page 12 starts with Overarching Factual Issues. A reading of that makes it easy to see why Rosenstein and Barr concluded that the report didn't prove obstruction of justice.

Both summaries track pretty closely to Barr's public statements thus far. If there are any bombshells in either Volume, they certainly won't be found in either summary. Also, the redactions, at least in the summaries, were minimal.

I'll have to peruse/skim through the meat of both Volumes before drawing a more finalized conclusion, but based upon what I've read thus far this is a REALLY bad day for anybody who put their eggs in the Mueller basket in terms of taking down Trump.

Poor Trumplsheepskin... his Dear Leader told Russia to go ahead and steal the email and they did THE SAME DAY. Then the Report says that the only thing that kept Donnie from obstruction was that his aides refused to follow his orders to obstruct.

And then the Report refers the charges to Congress to hold Hearings.... and even cites the precedent for them to do so.